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What can parents do to make it easier for children to learn to use language to express themselves?


read to them

show them image flash cards

play stimulating movies

play music while they sleep

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Best: read to them — and talk with them interactively. Shared book reading and back-and-forth conversation are among the strongest ways to build vocabulary and expressive language.

Less useful or not recommended as sole strategies:
- Image flash cards: have limited benefit by themselves. They help more when used within interactive play (naming, asking questions, expanding the child’s words) rather than as passive drill.
- Stimulating movies: passive screen viewing is not an effective substitute for live interaction. The AAP discourages screen time for very young children; older children learn more from interactive, real-world conversation than from videos.
- Music while they sleep: there’s no evidence that playing music in the background while a child sleeps teaches language. Active musical play and singing together when awake can help.

Practical tips: narrate routines, use dialogic reading (ask and expand), follow the child’s interests, give lots of responsive turns, sing and play together, limit background TV. These create the social, interactive context children need to learn to express themselves.